OK, so all my
life I wanted to be able to play a musical instrument. Like many kids I
received a guitar when I was nine and I did not have any luck or natural
ability to continue trying to play it. When I was ten years old my Mom
hired a local musician to give me instructions and after about three
lessons Eddie Bell told my Mom that I had no musical ability and we gave
up.

OK, so now I am
seventy five and the urge is still alive so I got to thinking that maybe
an instrument with less strings may be easier for me. As it turns out my
wife Maureen works at the local community center and Gloria Whitelaw is
giving Ukulele lessons and Maureen suggests that I take the six month
course. Sure enough I started the course and after six months I can
manage to beat through almost twenty songs. Now comes the other hard
part, "singing", well in this category I am very poor so I try to get
most of my family and friends to join in and help me sing along. For
most of the summer we were visiting our friends Eric and Mary and Mary
sang along with me weekly and that sure did help as Mary is an
accomplished singer.

The other thing
that I have done is to join a group called "SOUP" South-western Ontario
Ukulele Players and this has turned out to be one of the most fun things
that I have ever done. SOUP gets together every Wednesday evening and
there are usually about one hundred of us Jamming at the London Music
Club. I can learn a lot with these great people and really enjoy getting
together with them.